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Issue No: 167 - February 14, 2011

Today's Quick Tip - Make Small Changes and Big Changes Just Happen...

The normal mind is afraid of change - that's why our lives don't change! Don't attempt big changes - your mind won't be up for it. Discomfort your not-too-uncomfortable mind by making a small change today and the big changes will, sooner or later, simply happen. What am I talking about? Do something completely different for lunch; get a different train home or drive home a different route; sit somewhere different at dinner tonight. Mix it up, 'cos the strange thing is that, in mixing your stale mind up, you'll begin to see sense.

Today's Featured Personal Development Video

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DEALING WITH USELESS THOUGHT

IS IT YOUR OWN STUPIDITY?

We will forever plagued by useless thought - it will be our lifetime's achilles heel unless we learn how to stop giving our energy to the thoughts that hold us back, drag us down and stop us from moving toward the life that we really want. The secret is to turn our energy to a true awareness of where we are here and now for it is only in the present moment that we can be effective, productive and take the action that will lead us to a better life.

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If you've started your day in the wrong frame of mind then your day is only going to get worse until you take deliberate, focused, concrete steps to take charge of your mind.

By default, our minds are set against us each morning - it is the way we are hard-wired and neither you nor I are going to alter the course of evolution within the short span of our own lives. We have to play with the cards we've been psychologically dealt.

In practical terms this means that you need to consciously take deliberate steps each morning to ensure that your mind knows who's boss. A good start is half the job. It doesn't matter how you do it - there's plenty of advice on this website about how you might do it - but you, yourself, need to find what turns you on. And turn yourself on each morning.

If you don't, your day will be a mere shadow of what it might otherwise be - and it will have been your own fault or, perhaps, your own stupidity. After all, who do you think should control your life - a mind on auto-pilot overwhelmed by fifty thousand random usless thoughts, or you?

Some Important Reading... if you want to change your life

And today's Article...

Discourse Summaries: Talks from a Ten Day Course on Vipassana Meditation

by S.N. Goenka

Some of you will be aware of my meditation adventures - in particular, my ten days on silence in preparation for a number of advanced workshops with my own clients - it's alright, my Advanced Workshops are just one day long and silence is never heard!!!

Well, I've just come across a set of summaries to the evening talks given by video by S.N. Goenka - the founder of the International Vipassana Trust. If you've any inclination at all to find out what makes you and the world really tick, here's an introduction that will lead you down the rabbit hole into a world that's very different from that which the normal mind perceives.

Bear in mind, 'Vipassana' means to see things as they really are...

HOW TO MAKE A GREAT IMPRESSION

How can you impress anybody if you're not all there?!!!

by Willie Horton

If you're worried about making a good impression, you're not! To make a great impression requires singlemindedness - something that the normal person knows precious litte about. You need to have presence which simple means being more present in the moment than everyone else. But your "normal" mind is working against you - you need to train it in the art of paying attention to the here and now...

Take a few minutes, read the article, understand that it is your presence that makes the difference - you have to turn up to your own life...

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